Francis Turns Papacy in UN Chaplaincy

The current crisis in the Church is probably the worst in her history, worse than the Reformation and Arianism, Professor John Rist told EdwardPentin.co.uk (July 24). The Church is secularising herself, he observes.

Rist is a world-renowned British scholar of classical philosophy who was banned from all pontifical universities in Rome in 2019 for his scholarly criticism of Francis.

For Rist, the Church is too centralised around the pope. “A bad pope can do what he wants and suppress the good things, because the Church has become ‘The Pope'.”

This phenomenon is only 200 years old and bears "no relation" to what the papacy used to be, even in the post-Reformation period.

For Rist, the disintegration existed there before Francis, "but it is being encouraged now”. It has turned the Pope into a "spokesman for the spiritual aspects (if there are any)" of the UN or something like that.

In all history, Rist cannot see a Pope like Francis who “was validly, though irresponsibly, elected.” He stresses that canon law doesn't say how to remove a heretical pope. For Rist, this is a "real hole".

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